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>> it was very much my hope that he would rise to the mantle of the office. i don't think he's followed through. >> a crash in houston left one woman dead after a prank went wrong. >> three teens throwing eggs at drivers, ran a red light, t-boning a truck. >> he's just 14 years old, but he took my entire life. >> a toddler is recovering in the hospital after falling into a rhino exhibit at a florida zoo. >> we have to make sure that can never happen again. we will make any physical changes we need to make. >> a powerful winter storm hitting the southwest will cause dangerous travel conditions for tt storm's going to march to the east and bring more rain and misery. >> most criminals are not the brightest, but one man in oregon may top the list. >> he was caught trying to steal a bike from the bike rack at the local police department. >> this is just not smart. >> it says police right there. >> dumb criminal. >> glor: good evening. i'm jeff glor. and this is our western edition. we are going to begin tonight with this afternoon's big meeting at the white house. they were looking for a breakthrough. they did not find one.

lots of reactions still coming in on this, and this comes one day before democrats take control of the house, and the senate gets two additional republicans. major garrett has details. >> i think we can work with the democrats, actually, and get quite a bit done. >> reporter: that was before president trump met with democratic leaders in their first face-to-face meeting since the partial government shutdown began 12 days ago. the impasse will continue until at least friday, when the president has asked congressional leaders back to the white house. he offered no clues on when avernment will reopen. >> could be a long time, or it could be quickly. it could be a long time. >> reporter: publicly, the president is sticking to his demand for $5 billion for a wall on the southern border. democrats have offered roughly a fifth of that amount for border security, but not wall construction. >> and we're talking about ortional security. this isn't just a border. this is national security. this is health and wellness. this is everything. >> reporter: after meeting with mr. trump in the situation room

s,r about 90 minutes, top democrats said polls show the country is on their side. >> the bottom line is very timple: at our last meeting, the mesident said, "i am going to nmut the government down." they are now feeling the heat. it is not helping the president. it is not helping the republicans to be the owners of this shutdown. >> reporter: in the nation's capital, tourist attractions like the national zoo, most museums, and the national archives are closed. national parks remain shut down, too, but some are getting unsupervised use, like yosemite, c ere trash piles up for lack of funds to haul it away. >> it's a very stressful situation. >> reporter: laurie mccann, a furloughed i.r.s. analyst program analyst outside of chicago, is worried about paying her medical bills after a recent surgery. >> i have to figure out how to pay my necessary living expenses soon. i will go right through my savings, you know, and then i have to figure out what to do. >> glor: all right, major, as we

mentioned, the senate gets two additional republicans but democrats take over the house. what happens? >> reporter: well, the new house democratic majority will open congress tomorrow and pass two g.o.p.-drafted bills that could end the shutdown, including one that would provide an additional month of negotiations over urrder security funding. but senate republican leaders have said that legislation dead on arrival. why? because president trump opposes it. >> glor: major garrett, thank you very much. now to the attack on the president by a member of his own party who is about to be sworn in as a u.s. senator.mitt romnep have tangled before. ed o'keefe has more on their latest spat. >> reporter: incoming senator mitt romney wrote in "the leshington post" that "the president has not risen to the mantle of the office." he said he will support trump policies that he agrees with but will "speak out against significant statements, or actions that are divisive, racist, sexist, anti-immigrant, dishonest, or destructive to democratic institutions."

on cnn, romney said he spoke out in response to recent controversies. >> the departure of secretary mattis and the decision to pull out of syria and the abrupt way that it was done was a precipitating event. >> reporter: president trump responded during a cabinet meeting. >> well, i wish mitt could be more of a team player. if he fought really hard against president obama, like he does against me, he would have won the election. >> reporter: today's back-and- forth was the latest twist in the president and romney's on again-off again relationship. mr. trump endorsed romney's presidential bid in 2012, but romney didn't return the favor in 2016. >> donald trump is a phony, a fraud. >> reporter: the pair seemed to reconcile after mr. trump's election, meeting twice to discuss romney serving as secretary of state. now mr. trump's allies wonder whether romney is positioning himself for a 2020 primary challenge to the president. something romney denies. >> i'm not sure what mitt romney is trying to accomplish. it's kind of sad.

in i don't know how it really helps anybody's cause for people to stand up there like they're holier than thou. >> reporter: even romney's own niece, the republican national committee chairwoman ronna mcdaniel, called the comments "disappointing and unproductive." >> glor: all right, ed, as the fighting happens, on the subject of 2020, a whole lot the democrats looking towards 2020 right now and there has been movement from potential esndidates this week. >> reporter: that's right. roughly two dozen democrats, jeff, are still thinking about this or taking steps to run. elizabeth warren of massachusetts and julian castro of texas have launched exploratory committees, while the former vice-president joe biden is still thinking about what to do. he seemed to get an endorsement of sorts today from new york's governor andrew cuomo who said that he thinks biden has the best case to make among democrats. cuomo by the way said he is not running. so we can cross him off the list. jeff.

>> glor: ed o'keefe, thank you very much. u.s. government officials today were given a chance to visit an american man who has been detained in russia on espionage charges. secretary of state mike pompeo fo demanding answers on this arrest, and jan crawford is following him. >> reporter: five days after russia arrested the 48-year-old former marine for espionage, statement department officials, and ambassador jon huntsman met with paul whelan at this russian prison, just hours after secretary of state mike pompeo delivered a pointed message. >> we've made clear to the russians our expectation that we will learn more about the charges, come to understand what it is he's been accused of, and if the detention is not appropriate, we will demand his immediate return. >> reporter: the russians have offered no evidence whelan, now head of corporate security for a michigan autoparts company, is a spy. his family said he is in moscow for a friend's wedding and told "stars and stripes" that he gave wedding guests a tour of some of the kremlin museums friday morning, but never made it to he wedding friday night. his twin brother, david, told cbs news he had been to russia

many times before and called it inconceivable he is a spy. >> he does corporate security. it's the sort of personality you wouldn't expect to be a law breaker of any sort, let alone homeone who is, you know, breaking spy laws. >> reporter: whelan has a long history of military service. he spent 14 years in the marines but was discharged in 2008 for bad conduct, on several charges related to larceny. his arrest triggered speculation that whelan got caught up in a diplomatic tit-for-tat. payback after the u.s. arrested russian maria butina on espionage charges. russian president vladimir putin had warned of consequences saying the law of retaliation states an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth. now, putin did add that they were not going to be arresting innocent people just to exchange them for others, but russia's security service has opened a criminal case against whelan. and if he's convicted, he could face up to 20 years in russian prison. jeff.

>> glor: wow, what a story. jan crawford, thank you. dangerous weather continues to push across the south tonight. a rare snowfall in new mexico and arizona today caused at least one deadly accident. snow and ice are falling tonight in parts of texas and oklahoma as well. other areas of texas, arkansas, and louisiana are getting very heavy rain. on a rainy night in houston, investigators have released new information as they try to find the gunman who opened fire from inside a pickup truck, killing a seven-year-old girl. janet shamlian is following this. >> reporter: this houston neighborhood has been on high alert for the last three days as police continue to search for the gunman who shot and killed seven-year-old jazmine barnes as she rode in her mother's car with her three sisters sunday morning. the sheriff has released this grainy image of the suspect's truck, and he says they're examining area security videos, and that leads are pouring in. >> i'm very confident and we will not rest until an arrest is

made. we're going to continue to search for this killer. >> reporter: the second grader was full of life. her family called her "jazz." >> hello, jazz! -olaughter ) >> reporter: a happy seven-year- old who loved second grade, they say, and wanted to be a teacher. jazmine's teenaged sister says the shooter was a white man with a beard, a description that's raised questions whether the seemingly unprovoked attack was racially motivated. the sheriff says they haven't ruled out any motive. >> we're doing everything possible and then some to make sure that we bring this killer to justice. >> she brought so much joy. >> reporter: jazmine's mom, laporsha washington, was also hit by gunfire. before she was released from the hospital last night, we talked at her bedside. >> i haven't even seen her yet. her father hasn't seen her yet. he didn't even want to go see her, because he wanted to remember her as she was, not as what this man left us. >> reporter: she believes it's only a matter of time before the

shooter is caught. >> we're going to bring justice to my baby. >> reporter: announced late today, a $50,000 reward for information leading to the shooter. also, one of the teenagers in the car is now working with a sketch artist. authorities hope to release that composite drawing tomorrow. jeff. >> glor: terribly sad story, but, janet, good to have you with us and thank you for that reporting. we are learning more tonight about a little girl's dangerous encounter yesterday with a rhinoceros at a zoo in florida. manuel bojorquez has details on this. >> reporter: today, only zookeepers were allowed in the "rhinos encounter" area of the brevard zoo outside orlando. >> reporter: a day after a two- year-old girl stumbled through these metal polls, designed to let people touch and brush the white rhinos. keith winston is the zoo's executive director. >> we think at least one of them probably made contact with her snout, and then mom hurt her arm pulling the baby out. >> reporter: a child's shoe

could be seen in the enclosure, after her parents plucked her out and crews rushed her to the hospital. in a statement, the family said she is now doing well. winston says it's the first time in the "rhino encounters" nine- year-old history something like this has happened. is there pressure for zoos to make exhibits more interactive in order to keep visitors coming in? >> pressure i think is the wrong idea. in today's world, where kids spend so much time on technology, when they're rarely outside, really it's our duty to get people connected with nature. >> reporter: but clearly here something might have to change. >> i think we can make it better. we always can. >> reporter: the "rhino encounters" program has been suspended while officials review safety procedures. they tell us the rhinos involvee euthanized. jeff. >> glor: manny is in melbourne, florida tonight. manny, thank you. one of the world's iconic cities is under threat from a rising tide of tourists. italy has a solution for venice tonight. it involves a cover charge, and seth doane is there.

>> reporter: think venice, both canals and crowds come to mind. >> we're all kind of surprised, seeing how many tourists there are in the winter. >> reporter: in fact, locals say the city is losing its soul. the vast majority of tourists here are day trippers who do not spend the night. that means hotels do not collect taxes for the city, but venice still has to deal with all of the maintenance of this fragile place. italy's new law allows venice to tax those who only come for the day. at peak times, they'll pay up to ten euros, about $11.50. the money would go towards keeping the city clean, venice's mayor said. while some argue the city should be free for everyone, venetians told us they're concerned about the daily deluge of visitors, tome coming on giant cruise ships. we've seen protests by residents who are out numbered by tourists-- around 50,000 compared to an estimated 80,000 daily visitors.

>> we have many, many-- too much tourists. >> reporter: too many tourists. >> yes. >> reporter: that's paola mar, who's in charge of managing tourism for the city. before the law passed, she told us visitors are essential, but the city has reached a breaking point. "we want to treat tourists with respect," mar told us, "but we want respect." we found americans sympathetic and undeterred. would you pay that tax? >> yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: you wouldn't think twice about it? >> nope. came this far. cost me a lot more to get here than ten euros. >> reporter: it is not clear when or how this tax will be implemented. what is certain is that other cities trying to manage this crush of tourists, like florence, will be watching closely. jeff. ur glor: a director of tourism saying, "we have too much tourism." pretty remarkable. seth doane in venice for us tonight. thank you very much. up next on tonight's "cbs

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>> reporter: campbell credits her more than 300-point improvement with months of studying, tutor, and a free online s.a.t. prep program. >> they're not looking at it as if maybe she studied. maybe she focused and dedicated herself to passing this test. >> reporter: campbell says she missed the deadline to apply for her first choice, florida state university, and she cannot apply for some scholarships without her latest s.a.t. score. her attorney, benjamin crump, is considering a lawsuit. >> we intend to fight for the fgitimacy of kamilah's test scores. >> reporter: despite the setback, campbell remains hopeful. >> i'm proud of myself, and i need my scores released. >> reporter: education testing services told us they don't cancel scores based solely on a point increase. they say other factors, which they won't disclose, are taken into account. now, if the testing service does not validate the score after it's reviewed, jeff, campbell

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>> glor: finally tonight we are getting our first good look at the most distant object ever explored, a piece of rock spinning way out in space. fittingly, it took a "rock star" to help find it. "ere's mark strassmann. >> reporter: this is the first clear image of ultima thule, shaped like a celestial snowman, a frozen world one billion miles beyond pluto. >> this is part of what went into this amazing success. >> reporter: it astounded the "new horizons" science team, including ph.d. astrophysicist brian may. you are seeing an object which has been untouched since the dawn of the creation of the solar system. >> reporter: dr. may, a sir isaac newton look-alike is also... ♪ ♪ this brian may.

♪ open your eyes >> reporter: cofounder and lead guitarist of queen, the iconic british rock band. rocket scientist by day, rock star by night. ♪ we will not let you go >> different kinds of rocks. >> reporter: bigger thrill, live at wembley stadium, or these photos of ultima thule? >> you can't do that to me. i'm happy to be here right now. that's all i can say. it's amazing. and the whole trip with "new horizons," it's such a privilege for me. ♪ new horizons >> reporter: may wrote this anthem for new horizon's fly-by of ultima thule. ♪ no one's ever seen before .> reporter: a tribute to a glimpse beyond our solar system. >> i didn't imagine that it could happen. >> reporter: and now it has, another one bites the dust. mark strassmann, cbs news, laurel, maryland. >> glor: nice. that is the "cbs evening news" for tonight.

i'm jeff glor. i will see you tomorrow fr scramble to deal with the fall out from the government shutdown. >> san jose's mayor out of the hospital after a bike accident. why that comes with new dangers. steph curry throws a free party ask leaves fast fans -- and leaves fans frustrated. trash is piling up. people are using roads as restrooms and the government shutdown drags on for a 12th day. the park is now limiting access to its south entrance to only with people with lodging on

camping reservations. >> we heard a lot of reports of trash and human waste piling up here. we came up to take a look for ourselves. is it disaster out here? maybe not. >> with crisp, clear skies this was a fantastic day to be in yosemite. >> so here we are and i need to use the bathroom but there is nowhere to go. >> yes, that is the problem up here. park facilities are closed and locked up even in the campgrounds. >> bathrooms are kind of a challenge though especially for my wife. >> the problem so bad at the park's southern entrance, that access along the highway 41 corridor may be limited for safety reasons. the truth is there really aren't many rangers around and no one to take your money. >>